Making fear the most important thing in life is a survival strategy. The trouble is, most of us have survival pretty well handled most of the time. Unless you are often in physical danger, there's no need to make fear, which is designed to protect you from physical danger, the most important thing in your life. If you want your life to be about more than survival--if you have any desire to do more with your life than just make it through--then you must make something else more important than fear.